[hibernate-dev] Hibernate ORM: creating branch 5.5, long live 5.6

Hi all, While the Hibernate ORM core experts are focused on Hibernate ORM 6, we have a small team working on Hibernate Reactive that needs some more changes done on Hibernate ORM v5.x (as that's what they are using currently). I'm keen to apply these and they look great, but honestly I've been hesitant as they are significant and with larger patches there always is some degree of risk, no matter how cautious we are. To better address these needs, I will bump the minor version of releases more regularly than what we've seen in the past; this doesn't reflect a change of pace of the project, nor should you expect significant features to be highlighted in each minor release: it just puts us in a position to more reliably be able to ship important fixes in older releases, w/o such release having to include also the many fast paced changes required by the Reactive team. I'm confident this makes sense to all: after all that's what the minor/micro differences are for. So nothing is really different here, expect that you'll likely see minor releases happening more frequently from now on. Thanks, Sanne